Godfred D. Afenyadzu

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Alibaba sets sights on record-breaking Singles’ Day with 1 million brands joining festival

Alibaba Group Holding is gearing up for its annual Singles’ Day shopping festival on major online marketplaces Taobao…

China Mobile triples capacity at mega Inner Mongolia computing hub amid nation’s AI push

China Mobile, one of the country’s state-backed telecoms giants, has tripled the capacity of its largest intelligent computing…

Kurt Campbell on US’ China focus, the Indo-Pacific Quad, risks of AI

Kurt Campbell is a veteran US diplomat and strategist who has played a leading role in shaping Washington’s…

As China’s AI race accelerates, ‘model fatigue’ becomes the next challenge

On September 22, the global artificial intelligence landscape spun on its axis within a matter of hours. In…

China’s AI compute ambitions demand innovation

China has set a five-year goal for the expansion of intelligent computing capacity to drive artificial intelligence (AI)…

Huawei steps up Tau chip roll-out, with Mate XT 2 on track for 1 million sales

Huawei Technologies is making rapid progress in rolling out a new breed of advanced chip based on its…

How Alibaba is using AI to revamp its mapping app – and take on Meituan

Late last year, Zhang Xuan’s small beef noodle joint in Shanghai suddenly began seeing a dramatic surge in…

Xi-Trump dinner puts US tech titans in spotlight – what does it mean for China ties?

If the American guests seated at the head table with President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump…

Alibaba teases 10-trillion-parameter model, debuts ‘China’s most powerful’ AI chip

Alibaba Group Holding has introduced what it called China’s most powerful artificial intelligence chip and teased plans to…

Alibaba open-sources medical AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions

Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has open-sourced an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying nearly 150…

China is beating the US in consumer AI adoption, thanks to super apps: Morgan Stanley

China is surging ahead of the US in consumer AI adoption as technology giants like Tencent Holdings and…

The US and China are racing to build ‘self-improving AI’. Here’s what’s at stake

The US-China race for artificial intelligence dominance has entered a new phase: using AI to build better AI.…

Apple enters a crowded foldable smartphone market in China – can it beat Huawei?

Apple’s long-awaited entry into the foldable smartphone market, the iPhone Duo, has drawn immediate attention in China over…

Punching above their weight: how China’s AI giants stretch each dollar in compute race

The massive gap in artificial intelligence spending between US and Chinese tech titans may not buy the advantage…

Apple poised to unveil most expensive iPhone yet, fuelled by memory price surge

Apple’s next flagship smartphone, the iPhone 18 Pro, could cost as much as US$1,319 for the base configuration…